#act

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. ↗

— Anthony Trollopel

#dreams #hate #love #novelist #sleep

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty #war #beauty

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fruition #motivational #society #success #wishing

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#language #design

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#distractions #age

A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. ↗

— Rick Allen

#brand #brand new #character #i #new

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#cause #life #spiritual